kidney removal

[e34john]

i get get them off. the tops are declipped but i cant get the bottom ones off. any tips before i just break the damn things off and superglue them back on?

[TerribleONE]

the bottoms are on hinges, bring the top down/forward and they should just come out easily with some wiggling.

[GaryE30]

Wow... if you're only talking about the actual center kidney grill then either yours is stuck or you're just crazy.

If you're also talking about the side grills too, there are philips head screws holding the bottoms on as well as clips on top.

[e34john]

wow they did come out with a lot of pulling i guess i was tryin to be too careful since it is 20 year old plastic.

[asubimmer]

if you take off the top clips and you don't hold the kidney it will basically fall out

[Erick]

if you take off the top clips and you don't hold the kidney it will basically fall out

I'm pretty sure he's asking how to remove the chrome piece of the kidneys instead of removing the whole assembly from the car.

[asubimmer]

fyi there only some of them have removable silver parts. You "can" remove it on all of them but you have to drill out the rivit on the top on some of them. But since there isn't anything holding them on the bottom, I assume that he is trying to remove the whole kidney from the car.

edit....are we talkin about your e30 or a e34? Cause yes the e34 has 4 clips on the bottom that you will have to get a screw driver on to pop off. that is unless you rip it off ;)

[Teaguer]

In post #4 he says that he already removed the kidney just by pulling .